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Brotherhood vs Confederacy - What's the difference?

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Brotherhood is a related term of confederacy.


As a noun brotherhood

is the state of being brothers or a brother.

As a proper noun confederacy is

(historical) the informal name for the , the collection of american states that seceded from the united states in 1861, and fought against the union in the american civil war.

brotherhood

English

(Webster 1913)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The state of being brothers or a brother.
  • An association for any purpose, as a society of monks; a fraternity.
  • The whole body of persons engaged in the same business, -- especially those of the same profession; as, the legal or medical brotherhood.
  • Persons, and, poetically, things, of a like kind.
  • A brotherhood of venerable trees. - .

    Hypernyms

    *siblinghood

    Synonyms

    * fraternity, association, fellowship, sodality, brethren

    See also

    * sisterhood

    confederacy

    English

    Alternative forms

    *

    Noun

    (confederacies)
  • an alliance